鈥淲e are human beings, why are we ignored?鈥, a Tamil refugee inside the Christmas Island detention centre told 麻豆传媒 Weekly on the night of January 28.
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A global temperature rise of 2掳 Celsius 鈥 the target set at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December 鈥 is a death sentence for Tuvalu.
On January 13, Rupert Murdoch鈥檚 US network FoxNews claimed that while the US 鈥渨as leading [the] international relief effort in Haiti鈥, Cuba was 鈥渃onspicuously absent from the roster of helping hands鈥.
As debate over the travel ban on US citizens visiting Cuba continues in the US Congress, many US citizens remain afraid of visiting their largest Caribbean neighbour.
The article below is abridged from Aporea.org. It has been translated by Kiraz Janicke.
On December 16, the Victorian state government passed the Summary Offences and Control of Weapons Acts Amendment Bill 2009.
On January 14, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Google had removed links to Encyclopedia Dramatica, a user-editable, 鈥渟atirical鈥 website that uses the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia.
More than 1000 gathered on January 17 to protest the enforced closure of the Tote hotel, a victim of changes to Victoria鈥檚 liquor licensing laws that have seen the popular inner-city music venue upgraded to a 鈥渉igh risk鈥 venue.
Child detention Congratulations to Sue Gilbey for winning the International Bremen Peace Award and working to end Australia's shameful treatment of asylum seekers. (Suffering in the 'lucky country', GLW #822). My country, Scotland, also treats
Avatar is real: the fictional planet of Pandora exists in South and Central America, and the Na'vi peoples are being displaced and killed right now. The names are different, but the facts are almost the same.
Politicians and newspapers love to revere a war hero from Afghanistan. It鈥檚 strange, then, that they haven鈥檛 got round to Lance-Corporal Joe Glenton, the British soldier who has been arrested for addressing an anti-war protest in October.
The recent murder of Nitin Garg highlighted continuing violence against Indian students. It has led some to ask 鈥淚s Australia a racist country?鈥 and put others on the defensive about Australia鈥檚 racist image.
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